This
is the annotated text of the "Speculum Gregis" pages 30 to 39 inclusive.
This annotated version includes additional background material, family research
contributions from readers, excerpts from the 1841 census, and some related photographs.

Also
available is the basic text of the same 9 pages
as an uninterrupted transcription.

The
wording used in both versions was originally a distillation of three separate
transcriptions of the original hand-written text. Where the texts differed, I
followed the majority unless historical evidence suggests I should do otherwise.
I have subsequently transcribed the text direct from the original document
so the corrected transcription used on this website (currently pages 1 to 29 inclusive) is therefore my own.

They can neither
read. He was a widower and has three sons by his first wife [Alice
Ingrey] living in the parish, and one daughter, Mary, wife of James King.
She has one son by her first husband [named Kidman presumably]
who lives with them.

Allen
Kidman aged 23.

He
is now in prison for theft and is a wild drinking fellow. He was christened in
Croydon Church, where they were married; they are not often in Church.
[this paragraph is crossed through]

RSBS: (She
is now dead, as is her son. Old Pateman comes now regularly to Church.)

[Contribution:
William's first wife was Alice (nee Ingrey) - their children were Elizabeth baptised
1807, William 1809, James 1813, Mary 1815 (page 60), and John 1817 (page 65).
William and Sarah's children were Timothy 1822, Ann 1824 and Samuel 1826.]

[Two
men named Kidman took part in the 1832 Croydon Riot and
were both sentenced to seven year's transportation]

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Page
31

Next
door

Thomas
and Martha Lyon

Can
read, son of Christopher Lyon. She cannot. They were married in Croydon church
where their son was Christened - they attend church occasionally, she more frequently.
She a great talker and gossip.

1.
William Lyon, aged 18. Reads a very little - not a steady lad.

Lodging here.

Thomas
Carter

Son
of ____ Carter, a very drunken man, [who is]
brother to Thomas Carter, Mr Ellis's shepherd. [This
Thomas Carter is...] Aged 27, he can read, works for Mr Elliston. Attends
Church regularly, and is a very respectable young man.

They
can both read. She is daughter of Jane Thacker (page 2). He is son of William
and Mary Chapman next door. They appear quiet steady people - but poor
owing to his not having had constant work lately. They are not constantly at Church.

They
were married and their children Christened in Croydon Church. They are always
in distress and difficulty - but I don't know that he drinks - but some bad management.
They are going to move down to the farm lately occupied by Mr Jackson.

They
were married and their children Christened at Croydon Church. She is half
sister to Susan Titmus.

RSBS:
(John and Thomas are gone to Canada.) [See letter Page
49]

[James
Chapman was a prosecution witness in the trial of those involved in the 1832 Croydon
Riot, testifying that Anderson Storey forced him and a fellow-labourer to
join the party to break the threshing machine. ]

He
can read very well. She a little. He is the son of Elizabeth Lee (page
68). They attend Church very regularly, and are respectable people. She is very
dirty. He sings in the choir when he is well enough, but he has been ill for some
months with a liver complaint - has now been in hospital and is now an outpatient.

They
were married and their children Christened in Croydon Church. He works and sleeps
at Mrs Casbourn's. She is an abusive woman. The daughter Mary bears a most shocking
bad character. She has been living with James Gates and has been 'asked'
in Church, but the Banns have run out.

Samuel
was a Carpenter, and a free-liver; has been ill with cough and inflammation which
has turned to dropsy. I have visited him during a most painful illness, which
he bore with great patience, and assumed to show an humble and penitent spirit.

RSBS: (Died
11th July 1843.)

RSBS:
(Later: Mary Lyon was married to James Gates 30 January 1843, and they live with
the old Gates Simpson, the late clerk.)

(Having had
the opportunity to carefully check the first 30 pages of the original manuscript,
I found that quite a number of comments attributed to Sandilands in "The
Rector and his Flock" were actually in Fulford's handwriting. I suspect from
the chronology of this entry that the comments shown in blue above will also be
found to fall into this catagory.)

He
can read and is the son of John and Mary Endersby [page 57]. She
can't read, and is daughter of Mary Clarke (page 81).

She
had a base-born child [Charles Clarke] by some
other man before her marriage, which lives with her mother [see
page 81], but it is cause of disquietude now at times between her and her
husband. She appears a very clean person. He is often out of work, and is of a
surly dogged temper.

[The
following contribution is from Helen and Peter Waller in Australia (Peter is a
great-great-great-grandson of William and Ruth):

Ruth Ensbey (1820-1902)

William
Ensbey (1819-1897)

William and
Ruth Endersby, and sons John and Alfred Endersby, emigrated to Australia in 1954
arriving in 1855. With them was Charles Clarke said to be Ruth's son. When they
arrived, William changed the family name from Endersby to Ensbey. The family settled
in Lawrence, on the banks of the Clarence River near Grafton on the New South
Wales north coast and he became a very successful farmer as well as establishing
the Baptist Church in the area. The first services of this church were held in
William and Ruth's home and he later donated the land for a church building. The
original farm is still in the possession of one of William's descendants.]

This
family photo of the Ensbeys in Australia is taken from a poor copy. It shows Ruth
Ensbey (born Ruth Clarke in Croydon 1820) in the centre, not long before she died
in 1902, flanked by son John Ensbey (baptised Croydon 1842) and his wife Hannah,
and surrounded by most of John's children and grandchildren. ]

John Endersby = Mary Endersby

Richard
Clarke = Mary Clarke

|

|

William Endersby (1819-1897) = Ruth Endersby
(1820-1902)

| ||

|
(baseborn)
Charles Clarke (c1835-?)

John Endersby (1842-?) Alfred
Endersby (1845-?)

Tree:

[Croydon
Baptisms 1840-1845: 28 August 1842, John Endersby,of
William and Ruth, labourer; 11 May 1845, Alfred Endersby, of William and Ruth,
labourer]

Explanatory Notes: Fulford
generally devoted one page to each property; and I have retained his page numbers
as serials for the entries. Crossings out shown are as in the original document. Information,
footnotes and commentary additional to the original "Speculum Gregis"
texts are shown as [grey text in square brackets].

In
the pages of the original "Speculum Gregis", two handwritings are apparent,
that of Francis Fulford (entries from 1843 to 1845) and that of his successor,
the Rev Sandilands (entries from 1845 to 1848). The notes by the Rev Sandilands
have been shown in this online edition as RSBS: (dark blue
text within round brackets) and sometimes identified as a later entry.
However, having taken the opportunity to check the first 30 pages of the original
manuscript, I found that quite a number of comments attributed to Sandilands in
"The Rector and his Flock" were actually in Fulford's handwriting. I
assume from the chronology of some of the entries in the later 61 pages that there
will be other attributions that will fall into this category.

A
national Census was taken on the 6 June 1841, three weeks before Fulford's arrival
in Cambridgeshire and eighteen months before the "Speculum Gregis" was
started. Details from the Croydon-cum-Clopton census have been added to page entries
where appropriate. Note that the ages of adults were generally rounded to the
nearest five years by the census enumerator and therefore they should not be taken
as a reliable indication of age. The enumerator also reported that 26 Croydon
labourers were "having left the district for the hay harvest in the neighbourhood
of London", which would explain the absence of a number of the known heads
of households.

I
want this site to be as accurate and as informative as possible - please let me
know if something is wrong, however trivial the correction. I would also welcome
additional information to add to the annotated text - especially from those with
'family' in Croydon between 1840 and 1850.

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